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Events Leading up to the American Revolution Review

Total questions: 17

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What does Boycott mean?

a)

to be in boy scouts

b)

to refuse to buy or use certain goods

c)

to illegally move in and out of the country

d)

a very important public or official announcement

2.

What does Smuggling mean?

a)

to be in boy scouts

b)

to refuse to buy or use certain goods

c)

to illegally move in and out of the country

d)

a very important public or official announcement

3.

Who won the French and Indian war?

a)

France

b)

Indians

c)

The United States of America

d)

The British

4.

How did the French and Indian War help start the American Revolution?

a)

The British lost a lot of money in the war and started taxing American Colonists

b)

The Colonists didn't have any land

c)

The Colonists didn't have any food

d)

England wanted to take back the American Colonies

5.

What did King George III prevent the colonists from doing? (Proclamation of 1763)

a)

having water

b)

traveling or moving past the Appalachian Mountains

c)

buying sugar and tea

d)

buying newspapers and stamps

6.

What act taxed the colonists on sugar, molasses and other items?

a)

Townshend Acts

b)

Stamp Act

c)

Sugar Act

d)

Proclamation of 1763

7.

What act taxed the colonists on newspapers, stamps, paper and other printed items?

a)

Townshend Acts

b)

Stamp Act

c)

Sugar Act

d)

Proclamation of 1763

8.

How did the colonists protest the Townshend Acts?

a)

By smuggling goods

b)

By going back to England to talk to Parliament

c)

By moving to a different country

d)

By yelling at the British soldiers and kicking them out of their homes

9.

What did it mean when the colonists said, "No taxation without Representation!"?

a)

the colonists were upset England was paying taxes

b)

The colonists were upset they had no say on what they were getting taxed on

c)

the colonists were happy they had representation in Parliament

d)

the colonists said they wouldn't go to England to talk about taxes

10.

What act taxed colonists on lead, paper, glass, tea and paint?

a)

Stamp Act

b)

Sugar Act

c)

Tea Act

d)

Townshend Acts

11.

What did Paul Revere do?

a)

Alert the colonists the British were coming to attack

b)

Became the President

c)

Traveled the world

d)

Was a British soldier

12.

What group of people protested the Stamp Act?

a)

The British Soldiers

b)

Sons of Liberty

c)

The Boston Tea Party Protesters

d)

Stamp Act Protesters

13.

Who were the Daughters of Liberty?

a)

Daughters of important people

b)

British soldier's daughters

c)

Women that taxed the colonists

d)

Women that helped weave and sew clothes to help boycott British clothing.

14.

What act cause the Boston Tea Party?

a)

Stamp Act

b)

Townshend Acts

c)

Sugar Act

d)

Tea Act

15.

How many people were killed in the Boston Massacre?

a)

1

b)

3

c)

5

d)

10

16.

What started the Boston Massacre?

a)

The stamp act

b)

Paul Revere

c)

proclamation of 1763

d)

an argument with a British general and a few colonists

17.

What did the First Continental Congress do?

a)

They told England they were going to move somewhere else if they didn't stop taxing them.

b)

They decided to surrender to England

c)

They sent a petition to King George the III to stop the Intolerable Acts and stop trade with the British

d)

They decided to go to war with England